by Robert Parham | Dec 29, 2006 | Opinion
Converting Muslims to Christianity is not the key to stability in Iraq, converting American Christians to Christianity is. Before Christmas, the blogosphere drew attention to a Republican congressman who said that converting Iraqi Muslims to Christianity was the key...
by James L. Evans | Dec 28, 2006 | Opinion
The New Year has become a time for us to gather up our hopes and prayers for the coming year and express them in resolutions. The idea of “New” seems to lay out the prospect for something different, something better. I confess to being a resolution maker....
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 28, 2006 | Opinion
“Beside the rivers of the Potomac we sat and wept at the memory of our homeland, leaving our conga drums by the palm trees…. ‘Sing,’ they said, “some Mambo.” How can we sing our rumba in a pagan land? Mi patria, if I forget you, may my...
by Richard Wilson | Dec 28, 2006 | Opinion
For the last month Bing Crosby, the quintessential crooner, has been treating us to “White Christmas” almost everywhere we turned. We heard him in grocery stores, shopping centers, elevators, and even when we were put on “hold” after calling...
by Laura Seay | Dec 27, 2006 | Opinion
Jesus was a refugee. That’s all I can think about this Christmas. Last Sunday at church was the Christmas extravaganza, shepherds and angels and wise men and Mary and Joseph and a baby who didn’t cry (which is, in itself, a small miracle). Carols have been...
by Anna Maffei | Dec 26, 2006 | Opinion
As members of a minority church strongly involved in the struggle for human dignity, freedom of conscience, justice and peace, Baptists in Italy read the European Union’s constitution treaty with a strong “Amen!”–particularly the charter of...